Summer Retreat Begins June 24 at Serenity Ridge and on Zoom
With Honored Guest His Holiness the 34th Menri Trizin
His Holiness the 34th Menri Trizin and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, summer 2019Ligmincha's Annual Summer Retreat begins this month at Serenity Ridge! Join Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and His Holiness the 34th Gyalwa Menri Trizin, Lungtok Dawa Dhargyal Rinpoche, spiritual head of the Bon tradition, for one or both weeks, either in person at Serenity Ridge or online on Zoom. His Holiness and Rinpoche will teach separately each day on different topics.
Week 1: June 24-July 1, 2023
Week 2: July 2-July 8, 2023
Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will teach Tummo, Inner Fire of Realization, Part 3, third in a four-part series. Tummo refers to inner heat, and its teachings are designed to burn away subtle obscurations and cultivate bliss. Rinpoche will teach from the text Ku Sum Rang Shar (spontaneous Arising of the Three Kayas), written by Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen Rinpoche, a Bon master who attained the body of light (rainbow body) in 1934.
His Holiness will teach from the Twenty-Four Masters, and will give the reading transmission of the chapters from the Bon Mother Tantra on Dream Yoga, Elements, Chod, Powa, Bardo and Sleep Yoga. In addition, His Holiness also will offer the Sherap Chamma initiation (wang) on Saturday, July 1.
You may attend one or both weeks of the retreat. New students are welcome to attend, and the retreat is open to everyone. If only able to join for one week, Rinpoche advises those new to these teachings to come to week one.
Those who attend in person can join us to welcome His Holiness and attendants upon his arrival at the Charlottesville airport on Thursday, June 22. Later in the afternoon, we will line the driveway at Serenity Ridge to welcome him back to the retreat center. Times to be announced later at Serenity Ridge.
Serenity Ridge also will host a special fundraiser for the Bon Children's Welfare Center in Dolanji, India on Friday, June 23, at a historic home in Albemarle County, close to Serenity Ridge. More information will be posted soon on the Serenity Ridge website.
